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Trump offered up a 10-point plan for dealing with undocumented immigrants.
Donald Trump is at a high-stakes fork in the road in his campaign for president as he prepares to lay out his latest position on immigration law in a major speech in Arizona on Wednesday.
However, he may have put himself at risk of limiting his ability to broaden his base of support to include more Hispanic-Americans and more moderate Republican voters who do not think it is possible or practical to crack down on all illegal immigrants.
The Iowa Representative is a well-known amnesty opponent, and while he previously backed Texas Sen. Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride” were an illustration of the pivot he is attempting – from his promise during the primaries to deport all undocumented immigrants, to a new narrowed focus on immigrant criminals.
Trump’s new half-change of heart led to a baffled round of headlines as well as some truly unbelievable writing on the right, like this National Review piece that said conservative hawks are confident Trump “will land on a sensible immigration policy – even if the events of the past week have made clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”.
It’s been the driving issue of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Trump Jr. confirmed that he father would still push for the deportation of undocumented immigrants if elected in November.
“You see a CEO at work”.
Last week, Trump said he was planning on “softening” his plan to deport over 11 million immigrants were he to win the election.
This interview aired last Thursday. Moreover, the safest course for him politically may be to continue to obfuscate on immigration policy to avoid antagonize either side of the debate.
While rarely raising his deportation plans, Trump has consistently and vociferously pledged his commitment to building a border wall, leading his supporters in a boisterous call-and-response chant of “Who’s going to pay for the wall?” to a resounding “Mexico!”.
Trump’s signature hardline approach on the issue of immigration, which capitalized on deportation and his plan to build up a wall between the borders of US and Mexico, took a vacillating turn after meeting with Hispanic leaders August 20. “We are going to obey the existing laws”.
“We have no idea who they are”, he said of refugees entering from such places. It’s a silly argument.
“I am trying to encourage Donald Trump to dump whomever the moron is who told him Americans are staying up at night anxious about how people who broke our laws entering, broke our laws staying here, broke our laws taking jobs, how comfortable they are”, Coulter told ABC News.
The 70-year-old real estate mogul said he’d employ a tracking system and an e-verify system to screen out overstaying illegal immigrants.
“Dwight Eisenhower. You don’t get nicer”.
You are exclusively responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree to our Terms of Service. “We have no choice”. Trump could be fined up to $16,000 for each non-citizen that he hired, and he could face up to six months in prison for each violation.
Unlike George W. Bush, Mitt Romney and John McCain, his disapproval ratings among minority voter are sky-high. He later deleted what he called his “Twit that many found to be offensive”.
On Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show, he discussed how hard it is to break up families. He explained that he’s been talking to “thousands and thousands” of people on this subject. And they wouldn’t say whether it was worrisome that such a consequential proposal remained unclear so close to the November 8 election.
“These global gangs and cartels will be a thing of the past. And he has said he wants to remove the criminals in this country”, King told CNN, according to Politico. According to Univision, at least one participant heard Trump say that mass deportations aren’t the answer and that a better idea might be to allow the undocumented to sort out their legal status on us soil through “embassies or consulates of their countries”. “It’s just a waste of paper”, he told Time Magazine in June.
“We want to talk about the big visionary stuff”.
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“Within ICE I’m going to create a new special deportation task force”.
